The teenager clocks 3:36.02 to break the world indoor under-20 and Norwegian indoor 1500m record.

Jakob Ingebrigtsen showed his ‘majority’ to pounce at the perfect time and take the win down the home straight at the International PSD Bank Meeting Dusseldorf on Wednesday evening (February 20).

After breaking the world indoor mile record in Birmingham on Saturday, it was no surprise to see Ethiopia’s teenage star Samuel Tefera at the front behind the pacers in the early laps around the 200m track in the German city.

Once the final pacemaker stepped off the track, Tefera was at the forefront, but European 1500m and 5000m champion Ingebrigtsen was quick to close the gap to ensure the final leg of the IAAF World Indoor Tour had an exciting finish.

As the two teenage stars came around the final bend in Dusseldorf, Ingebrigtsen moved out to the second lane, and powered home with strength beyond his years, to take to win in 3:36.02, with Tefera clocking 3:36.34.

Ingebrigtsen’s victory set a new indoor under-20 world record and broke the Norwegian indoor best.

Even though Tefera ran 3:31.04 last week, the time isn’t an under-20 record because his 20th birthday is later this year.

The middle brother of the Ingebrigtsen star trio, Filip, was third across the finish line in 3:38.62.

Earlier this month, Ingebrigtsen, who won an unprecedented third successive under-20 title at the European Cross Country Championships in Tilburg, ran a then world indoor lead 1500m time of 3:36.21 in Baerum.

That also smashed his previous European indoor under-20 record of 3:40.96 and older brother Henrik’s four year-old national indoor record of 3:39.70.

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